224 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



sen called on Mr. G. G. Council, of Vandalia, who had just come 

 from Springfield, where he attended the tuberculosis conference 

 in session there March 30. Mr. Council gave a report of that 

 conference and resolutions adopted, which same resolutions were 

 also endorsed by vote, at the Effingham, Altamont and Montrose 

 meetings. A bill before the legislature to appropriate $6,000 for 

 premium at the State Fair, for dairy cattle raised and owned by 

 Illinois dairy cattle breeders; $1,000 each for the six distinct 

 dairy breeds, Holstein, Dutch Belted, Jersey, Guernsey, Ayer- 

 shire and Brown Swiss. It was favorably voted upon and a re- 

 port of the action ordered sent to the general assembly members 

 of this district. 



Mr. C. C. Hayden, of the University of Illinois, was then 

 introduced and gave a very instructive talk on feeds and feeding, 

 telling which different kinds of feed, in right proportion to each 

 other, would make a balanced ration, what feeds or plants for 

 dairy cattle would grow most profitable in this section of the 

 State. 



The next speaker at this meeting, Mr. S. B. Shilling, presi- 

 dent of the National Dairy Union, was then introduced. He held 

 the audience attentive and deeply interested from beginning to 

 end in his usual humorous, pleasant way, talking about the neces- 

 sity and great advantage of dairy farming as a means of building 

 up, restoring the fertility and productiveness of worn out land. 

 The problem of fair deal farming — "that is, giving something 

 back to the soil for what we take from it," cannot be more con- 

 vincingly or forcefully explained and talked over, than explained 

 by Mr. Shilling at this meeting. Three years ago Mr. Shilling 

 addressed the farmers around Effingham, when the State Dairy 

 Convention was held there, about the great advantage of silage 

 and other important things. What he said proved true, and the 

 results of following his advice at the time are very plainly visible 

 now. In three years more we will see further development as a 

 result of this last good talk from him. 



Mr. M. Began, superintendent of the Van Camp milk con- 

 densory at Effingham, was introduced as the last speaker at this 



